Nigel Lawson
A political colossus
Lord Lawson’s calm, assured leadership was pivotal in securing Brexit
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production